Everything about Cornish School Of The Arts totally explained
Cornish College of the Arts is a fully accredited institution in the
Denny Triangle and
Capitol Hill neighborhoods of
Seattle, Washington,
USA that offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in
Dance,
Theater, Performance Production,
Design, and
Fine Art, as well as the Bachelor of
Music degree.
Cornish was founded in 1914, as the Cornish School, by pianist and voice teacher
Nellie Cornish, who was influenced by the pedagogical ideas of
Maria Montessori, as well as
Calvin Brainerd Cady's ideas on music pedagogy, and who served as the school's director for its first 25 years. Within three years it had enrolled over 600 students, and was the country's largest music school west of Chicago.
The Cornish School began its operations in rented space in the Boothe Building and Broadway and Pine Street. Initially, the school taught only children, but it soon expanded to functioning also as a
normal school (roughly what would now be called a
teachers' college). While music was at the heart of the curriculum, Cornish recruited opportunistically where she saw talent, and the school soon offered classes as diverse as
eurhythmics,
French language,
painting, and
dance. The school gathered a board of trustees from among Seattle's elite, who funded her school through the hard economic times during and after
World War I, and raised money for a purpose-built school building.
Campus
Cornish's 1921 building, now known as Kerry Hall, is on the
National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as "Cornish School"; its Denny Triangle building is also listed on the NRHP, as the "William Volker Building". The Raisbeck Performance Hall is a Seattle City Landmark under the name "Old Norway Hall".
Notable faculty
Notable alumni
Colleen Atwood
Maurice and Ellen Van Volkenburg Browne
Merce Cunningham
Brendan Fraser
Wolfe Bowart
Chet Huntley
Eyvind Kang
Briggan Krauss
Jesper Myrfors
Rosie Thomas
Steve White of The Blue Man Group
Andi Rusu
Nancy Wilson of Heart
Reggie Watts
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